The Sunburst Sparkler caffeinated, sparkling water beverage will be available in four flavors at all Wisconsin Union dining locations.
Wisconsin Union and Karben4 roll out another drink collaboration
Madison Magazine
Author: gbump
Wisconsin Union and Karben4 team up for a new beverage collaboration
WKOW – Channel 27
The drinks have been deemed Sunburst Sparklers. They are caffeinated, sparkling waters that come in a variety of flavors.
Red Cross UW-Madison to hold blood drive
WISC — CBS Channel 3
The American Red Cross, the University of Wisconsin Red Cross Club, and the University of Wisconsin Recreation and Wellbeing Club announced Thursday the UW-Madison Kick-Off Blood Drive, in order to address the ongoing need for blood products.
Former croplands could be ‘sweet spot’ for renewable-energy production
Public News Service
Tyler Lark, research scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the report’s co-authors, said some lands have been restored to natural ecosystems. Others, those perhaps currently populated by invasive species, could be the answer to big questions the country is facing about where to house increasing renewable-energy development.
“We ideally want to avoid our best and most productive ag lands but we also don’t want to encroach on pristine or native ecosystems,” Lark explained. “Formerly cropped lands might hit that sweet spot in the middle.”
Let’s go Bucky! Here’s News 3 Now’s guide for Badger Game Day at Camp Randall
WISC — CBS Channel 3
Badger fans will notice some changes at Camp Randall this fall. A new videoboard is the Badgers’ first scoreboard upgrade in ten seasons. Officials say this one will be better in all lighting conditions. Extra ribbon board panels were also installed on both sides of the stadium.
UW alum Sundaramoorthy pays homage to alma mater with Milwaukee 100 helmet
WISC — CBS Channel 3
The Wisconsin football team will begin its season on Friday, and UW alum Yuven Sundaramoorthy will race for the Milwaukee 100 in the INDY NXT Series at the Milwaukee Mile. Sundaramoorthy, who races for Abel Motorsports, is paying homage to the Badgers with a special helmet for the weekend that resembles the football team’s iconic helmet.
UW law professor: Chrystul Kizer verdict exposes immense pressure to plead guilty
Wisconsin State Journal
Column by John Gross, a clinical associate professor of law at the UW-Madison Law School and director of the Public Defender Project.
Wisconsin sees record pay growth, especially for Black, Hispanic women
The Capital Times
As inflation calmed last year, Wisconsin workers’ buying power grew at a record rate, according to a new report from the High Road Strategy Center, a University of Wisconsin-Madison think tank.
The center’s annual “State of Working Wisconsin” report shows what’s changed for workers of different races and genders in the last year.
Complete Cap Times Idea Fest program has something for everyone
The Capital Times
We will be using seven separate venues this year, though most of our big national speakers will appear as usual in Shannon Hall, the largest theater space in the Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
New protest rules at UW-Madison: Keep it quiet, and don’t block commencement photos
Wisconsin State Journal
Just days before the start of a new school year — and with it the likely resumption of pro-Palestinian protests on campus — UW-Madison has revised its rules on student protests, including several new restrictions on where and how loud demonstrations can be.
New UW-Madison protest policy ‘clearly unconstitutional,’ free speech expert says
Daily Cardinal
Schweber said the university limiting “expressive activity” within 25 feet of building entrances is “extremely problematic, clearly unconstitutional” and “begging to invite some judge to strike them down.”
‘White Fragility’ Author Robin DiAngelo Faces Accusations of Plagiarism
The New York Times
Among the scholars whose work DiAngelo drew on without proper acknowledgment, according to the complaint, are Stacey J. Lee, a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as Northeastern University’s Thomas K. Nakayama, and his coauthor, Robert L. Krizek, a professor emeritus at St. Louis University.
Cartoonist Lynda Barry : Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
NPR
These days, she’s (Lynda Barry) been busy teaching. She’s an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She’s written several books on the subject of drawings and comics, and how to do and make them.
Detecting agricultural pests through sound
NPR
(Emily) Bick, an entomologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, researches ways to better detect the agricultural pests that drive serious economic losses worldwide. She says improving these methods could result in using pesticides more strategically — less often, at just the right time.
How to be More Resilient, According to Experts
New York Times
“We as humans are very social creatures,” said Kathryn Howell, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “So when bad things happen to us, we want to be together and connected to others.”
For Two-Job Workers, There Aren’t Enough Hours in a Day to Stay Afloat
Wall Street Journal
“One story is that people are short of cash, and they need extra hours and the only way to pick up extra hours is by picking up a short-term job,” said Christopher Taber, chairman of the economics department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “Another story is that it’s easier to work two jobs now than it was before.”
4 years into COVID, isolation continues for some disabled residents
ABC News
Patients have been harassed or mocked for wearing masks in public, Dr. Jeannina Smith noted, despite international and national medical organizations emphasizing the importance of mask wearing as a mitigation tactic for illnesses. Hill has experienced this first hand.”You can’t look at someone and know that they’re receiving immunosuppression for an organ transplant or an autoimmune condition, and they remain at risk,” Smith said.
Adult summer camps bring you back to fun, simple moments of childhood
Wisconsin State Journal
“The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated loneliness among adolescents, young adults and older people,” said Bradford Brown, UW-Madison professor emeritus of human development.
Wake boats divide Wisconsin lake lovers. Should the state step in?
The Capital Times
Bill Banholzer, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a wakesurfing fan, said there is a body of research indicating that waves created by high winds are more powerful than any generated by boats.
UW-Madison creates freedom of expression videos as part of DEI deal
The Capital Times
As first-year and transfer students start classes this fall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, they must watch a new presentation about freedom of expression on campus.
Camp Randall adds heated turf, alcohol, and large video board for 2024-25 season
WKOW – Channel 27
The team at Camp Randall is gearing up and excited for the season opener.This year, Camp Randall is showcasing several new updates for fans to enjoy.
UW study: Most Wisconsinites have ‘forever chemicals’ in their blood
WKOW – Channel 27
A UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health study has found most Wisconsinites have some level of so-called forever chemicals in their blood. Though the Badger State’s concentrations remain below the national average.The study was published in the Journal of Environmental Research.
UW-Madison releases updated protest policies ahead of fall semester
Daily Cardinal
Revisions to the protest policy include restrictions on “expressive activity” within 25 feet of university facility entrances, size limitations for signs in buildings, specific sound amplification restrictions and restrictions on protest activity during select times on campus areas typically used for photos like the Abraham Lincoln statue at the top of Bascom Hill.
WILL files lawsuit against national underrepresented student scholarship
Daily Cardinal
The lawsuit filed by the conservative legal center Tuesday claimed the U.S. Department of Education’s $60 million McNair Program excludes students on the basis of race.
Wisconsin football updates season ticket sales for challenging 2024 home schedule
Wisconsin State Journal
Hosting three home games against preseason top-10 teams has helped the University of Wisconsin sell out football season tickets in the general and student seating sections.
New Wisconsin assistant has been around the football world to end up miles from his hometown
Wisconsin State Journal
Eric Raisbeck’s coaching career has taken him to six states and two foreign countries, all to find himself less than 7 miles away from where he went to high school.
Middleton company trying to make your phone operate faster wins Madison Pressure Chamber competition
Wisconsin State Journal
SixLine was founded in 2022 by Katy Jinkins, a former materials science PhD graduate from UW–Madison. Jinkins focused her academic work on integrating carbon nanotubes—straws of carbon atoms, ten thousand times thinner than a human hair—into electronics. Her work began in Professor Mike Arnold’s lab in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and led to multiple papers and patents that cover alignment techniques and the integration of carbon nanotubes into electronics, which is the basis of SixLine.
Wisconsinites can now file state and federal taxes for free online
The Capital Times
Clare Dahl, a financial and life span educator with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension, supports the change.
“Any time that access to free tax filing is expanded, it’s good news for everyone,” said Dahl, whose division supports the volunteer-run Richard Dilley Tax Center.
Will independent presidential candidates swing Wisconsin results?
The Capital Times
“I think all of these non-major party candidates are quickly shrinking away (in voter support),” said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison students feel the heat of move-in day
Wisconsin State Journal
As Madison sweltered under an excessive heat warning Tuesday, thousands of UW-Madison students arrived at campus residence halls for fall semester move-in.
Madison film series honors late UW film scholar David Bordwell
The Capital Times
It became clear early on to UW-Cinematheque program director Jim Healy that one summer wouldn’t be enough time to honor David Bordwell.
The ‘forbidden experiment’ is an infamously evil chapter in scientific history
Popular Science
He correctly deduced that “favorable conditions of the atmosphere” led to rapid bacterial growth. As a 1927 guide to dairy production from the University of Wisconsin very poetically put it: “A thick, sultry atmosphere usually precedes thunder showers and provides favorable conditions for the growth of milk-souring bacteria.”
People Battle the Heat During UW-Madison Move-In
WKOW – Channel 27
“We moved some of our check-in locations indoors, so that our staff and people waiting in line are not having to be out in the heat for today, because we know it’s pretty extreme,” said Brendon Dybdahl, UW-Madison Housing Marketing & Communications Director.
Study: Less than one-third of UW-Madison off-campus housing considered affordable
Wisconsin State Journal
The study confirmed what is largely already known through reams of anecdotal evidence: Nearly 70% of rentals are too expensive, costing individual students $1,000 or more in rent each month per student, often hundreds of dollars above what the students consider affordable; the cheapest apartments are often furthest from campus and more run down; and UW-Madison is one of the most expensive off-campus housing markets in the Big 10 conference.
UW-Madison faces deadlines from pro-Palestinian encampment deal
The Capital Times
When protest organizers and leaders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison reached a deal to end a pro-Palestinian encampment on Library Mall in May, they agreed to take a series of steps in the days and months ahead.
UW volleyball’s Carter Booth, like her dad, at the top of her game
The Capital Times
Whenever Carter Booth is packing for a road trip to see family and friends in Colorado, the University of Wisconsin volleyball player makes sure to take her bling.
Ultrasound Brain Stimulation Boosts Mindfulness
Scientific American
“I haven’t seen ultrasound technology used in this way, but this type of neuromodulation has significant potential to change how we think about and enhance mindfulness,” says University of Wisconsin–Madison social psychologist Hadley Rahrig, who also studies that state of mind.
‘White Fragility’ author allegedly plagiarized minority academics in doctoral thesis
Fox News
This included material from two Asian-American professors, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Stacey Lee and Northeastern University professor Thomas Nakayama.
UW Health on Forbes list of ‘Best Places to Work’
WKOW – Channel 27
UW Health ranked 33rd overall in Wisconsin, a fact they are very proud of, according to Chief Human Resource Officer Betsy Clough.
Traffic delays and street closures in place as UW-Madison students move-in
WKOW – Channel 27
Parking lots near residence halls are used as unloading zones, but other streets will be blocked off to allow students and their families to safely haul their stuff in.
Forbes Daily: Waymo Ramps Up New Robotaxi Factory As It Preps For Austin
Forbes
The stress-less 38 are scattered across the country, from New York to Georgia to Utah to California, and include big, public research universities like the University of Wisconsin-Madison and small, private colleges like Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.
Study: 27% of UW-Madison students share bedroom to save on rent
WISC — CBS Channel 3
Madison Alder Juliana Bennett came up with the idea for the study, and UW-Madison leaders said they will use the findings to inform future policy decisions.
Harris, Trump in a tug-of-war for Wisconsin union voters
The Capital Times
Historically, union leaders have been closely aligned with the Democratic Party, said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But the modern rank-and-file members, much like those at Local 180 in Racine, are more split, Burden said.
“There’s a little bit of a gap, I would say, between where unions as organizations stand relative to the Democratic Party and Kamala Harris, and where average union voters are,” he said.
UW poised to join studies of pig organ transplants in people
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison researchers have been working with eGenesis, one of two companies that supplied gene-edited pig organs for four transplants on the East Coast in critically ill patients who died within a few months. The companies are seeking federal approval to start larger clinical trials, and UW could be a site.
Sandra Deanna Paske
Wisconsin State Journal
Then in 1986, she was hired by UW-Madison, General Library System where Sandra remained until she retired with emeritus in 2011 as Head of Microimaging Services. During Sandra’s tenure with the UW-Madison library system, she played a key role in the establishment and development of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center.
OUR VIEW: Tear down ugly, failing monstrosity in heart of UW-Madison campus
Wisconsin State Journal
The Universities of Wisconsin last week listed the demolition and replacement of the Humanities Building as one of its top priorities for the next state budget. The UW Board of Regents approved the request. Now Gov. Tony Evers should include it in his budget request to the Legislature next year.
When do hummingbirds migrate out of Michigan and head south?
Detroit Free Press
According to Journey North, by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum, hummingbirds can find their way back to the area where they bred the year before, sometimes reportedly returning to the same exact site they were before.
UW study asks: How much of an inner voice do you have?
Wisconsin State Journal
Gary Lupyan, a UW-Madison psychology professor, is looking at why some people report high levels of inner speech and others have little or none. In a recent study involving UW students, those with more inner speech did better at two language tests than those with less inner speech, but there was no difference on more visual and math-oriented tasks.
Slippery red lanes? More answers to Madison bus rapid transit questions
The Capital Times
How many of the UW bus 80s are being replaced by bendy buses?
Upon full roll-out, most buses running on UW campus will be our all-electric vehicles. But, our standard 40-foot buses will also be utilized on this route as needed.
U of Wisconsin regents agree to ask Gov. Tony Evers for $855 million budget increase
AP
Tuition and student fees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the system’s flagship campus, now total $11,606 a year for in-state undergraduates. The total cost to attend the university for a year is about $30,000 when factoring in room and board, educational supplies and other costs.
Harris, Vance tout child tax credit expansions following financial assistance success
ABC News
A study by the Institute for Research on Poverty from the University of Wisconsin-Madison separately found that cash assistance “during infancy can have profound and long-lasting effects, including educational, behavioral, and economic or labor market advantages.”
Where did Kamala Harris grow up?
USA Today
In 1968, they moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where he taught and she did cancer research at the University of Wisconsin.
Union members aren’t just voting on labor this year
NBC News
Dahlia Saba, an electrical engineering Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is undecided, but only on whether to vote for Harris or not at all. Her top issue is the war in Gaza. Saba had family members in the region who were able to evacuate earlier this year and is disappointed with the Biden-Harris administration’s robust support for Israel.
UW-Madison Medical School White Coat Ceremony celebrates diverse backgrounds in medicine
WMTV - Channel 15
“For the faculty, this is a big day, these are our newest students that we’re welcoming, and we’re so excited to see them,” said Associate Dean in the School of Medicine and Public Health, Christine Seibert, “It’s honestly renewed our faith in the medical profession, we see this young idealistic excited group of people who want to join us in what is sometimes very hard work.”
As gray wolves divide conservationists and ranchers, a mediator tries to tame all sides
CBS News
Wolves began to die. One example: a third of Wisconsin’s gray wolf population was killed by hunters and poachers when protections were removed, researchers at the University of Wisconsin found in 2021.
Who is Kamala Harris’ ‘combative Marxist economist’ father, Donald J. Harris?
Fox News
He held teaching positions at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign before the couple divorced in the early 1970s. He took a position with Stanford in 1972 as a professor of economics after also working at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Her life was in danger, and she needed an abortion. Insurance refused to pay
NPR
Obstetrician-gynecologists from across Wisconsin had decided that “in cases of previable PPROM, every patient should be offered termination of pregnancy due to the significant risk of ascending infection and potential sepsis and death,” said Eliza Bennett, the OB-GYN who treated Ashley. Ashley needed an abortion to save her life. The couple called their parents; Ashley’s mom arrived at the hospital to console them. Under the 1849 Wisconsin abortion ban, Bennett, an associate clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, needed two other physicians to attest that Ashley was facing death.
Data breach: How to check if your Social Security number was affected
USA Today
People wondering if their identity may have been stolen can check their credit reports for signs of fraud, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Duane Anderson
Wisconsin State Journal
He managed National Food stores in Madison for many years and then was employed by University Housing until his retirement in 1990.
‘We deserve a seat at the table’: UW System unions protest as Board of Regents passes mass faculty layoffs
Daily Cardinal
Eight unions representing faculty and staff across the UW System urged the Regents to support their “meet and confer” campaign and reject faculty layoff plans.